We wanted to see how many people have actually had run-ins with the good and the bad of the social networking sites. We asked around and found some pretty good stories out of the locals in our area.
Interview with our local teacher
We asked a teacher in our school if they have had any social networking stories. Here is what they told us in our interveiw. "Two years ago, my daughters' friend was having problems with her parents. She then ran away. She stayed at a friends house. while at the house she had gotten on a computer to find out some of her closest friends had made a page in honnor of her. It helped her to know there were people out there looking for her and hoping she would come home."
Interview with our family
I asked a member of my family what run-ins she has had with the dangers and emotinal trama of social networking sites. Here is what she told me in an interview... "A few years ago I lost a friend because of a social networking site. She was old enough and had a very safe profile. She followed all the online rules. Her friends, however, didn't. They weren't really her friends. She was searching throught some posts and notes for something someone said was posted about her. She found something posted by an ex-boyfriend saying really mean things about her. How she was fat, and how she didn't have friends. She still loved him, and she took this all way too much to heart. She broke down, and she hung herself. This incident never made it out big in the news or anything. When the boy found out what she had done, he went into depression, because even though he said all those mean things, he didn't mean them. He was later admitted into a south Florida mental facility to cope with death threats toward himself. This all could have been avoided if he had thought more about what he posted before he posted it online."
A personal run-in
I was on my personal profile and came across a good use of social networking... I was on the computer and seen I was invited to a new event. I checked what it was. My family and family friends were invited to a benefit for my cousin who has been fighting breast cancer for a year and a half now. We all were invited bowling to help pay her medical bills. Facebook was fun and creative (and a paper-less, environmentally friendly) way to send the invites for the event. Happily, she is now in remission, and the benefit helped out our family immensly.
The Personal Touch
We wanted to see how many people have actually had run-ins with the good and the bad of the social networking sites. We asked around and found some pretty good stories out of the locals in our area.
Interview with our local teacher
We asked a teacher in our school if they have had any social networking stories. Here is what they told us in our interveiw."Two years ago, my daughters' friend was having problems with her parents. She then ran away. She stayed at a friends house. while at the house she had gotten on a computer to find out some of her closest friends had made a page in honnor of her. It helped her to know there were people out there looking for her and hoping she would come home."
Interview with our family
I asked a member of my family what run-ins she has had with the dangers and emotinal trama of social networking sites. Here is what she told me in an interview..."A few years ago I lost a friend because of a social networking site. She was old enough and had a very safe profile. She followed all the online rules. Her friends, however, didn't. They weren't really her friends. She was searching throught some posts and notes for something someone said was posted about her. She found something posted by an ex-boyfriend saying really mean things about her. How she was fat, and how she didn't have friends. She still loved him, and she took this all way too much to heart. She broke down, and she hung herself. This incident never made it out big in the news or anything. When the boy found out what she had done, he went into depression, because even though he said all those mean things, he didn't mean them. He was later admitted into a south Florida mental facility to cope with death threats toward himself. This all could have been avoided if he had thought more about what he posted before he posted it online."
A personal run-in
I was on my personal profile and came across a good use of social networking...I was on the computer and seen I was invited to a new event. I checked what it was. My family and family friends were invited to a benefit for my cousin who has been fighting breast cancer for a year and a half now. We all were invited bowling to help pay her medical bills. Facebook was fun and creative (and a paper-less, environmentally friendly) way to send the invites for the event. Happily, she is now in remission, and the benefit helped out our family immensly.